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Aesop's Fables, or the Aesopica, is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller who lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 564 BCE. Of varied and unclear origins, the stories associated with his name have descended to modern times through a number of sources and continue to be reinterpreted in different verbal registers ...
Aesop and the Ferryman; The Ant and the Grasshopper; The Ape and the Fox; The Ass and his Masters; The Ass and the Pig; The Ass Carrying an Image; The Ass in the Lion's Skin
In the 1912 edition of Aesop's Fables, Arthur Rackham chose to picture the carefree frogs at play on their King Log, a much rarer subject among illustrators. [13] But the French artist Benjamin Rabier, having already illustrated a collection of La Fontaine's fables, subverted the whole subject in a later picture, Le Toboggan ('The sleigh-run ...
The fox's taunt echoes the Greek proverb, "Physician, heal thyself", which was current in Aesop's time (and was later quoted in the Christian scriptures). The fable was recorded in Greek by Babrius , [ 2 ] and afterwards was Latinised by Avianus . [ 3 ]
The family welcomes the frozen snake, a woodcut by Ernest Griset. The Farmer and the Viper is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 176 in the Perry Index. [1] It has the moral that kindness to evil will be met by betrayal and is the source of the idiom "to nourish a viper in one's bosom".
The Honest Woodcutter, also known as Mercury and the Woodman and The Golden Axe, is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 173 in the Perry Index. It serves as a cautionary tale on the need for cultivating honesty, even at the price of self-interest. It is also classified as Aarne-Thompson 729: The Axe falls into the Stream. [2]
Gustave Doré's 1867 print of the ape astride a sea monster. The Ape (or monkey) and the Dolphin is one of Aesop's Fables and is numbered 73 in the Perry Index. [1] Due to its appearance among La Fontaine's Fables, it has always been popular in France, but in Britain treatment of the story was rarer until the 19th century.